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TAFl'S PLEA 4 ? For Whits Republican Party in the South. CAN SEE NO DANGER Of Negro Domination, ami Suys llare Problem 1h Kli minuted Politically. He Asserts That This HtntionS ^ Interests Art? No Longer Hound l*p in Democracy. New York, Dec. 7.?Presidentelect William H. Tuft, who came to New York today to address the North Carolina society of this city, was given a tumultous reception tonight by the members of the organization and prominent men from ail parts of tho South at the annual dinner of the North Carolinnns at the Hotel Astor. Five hundred members and guests of the society tilled the brilliantly decorated banquet hall, which was redolent of the pines of the resinous trees forming the backv /ground for more fragrant blooms, which were scattered everywhere over snowy linens and llag-draped walls. Intertwined ensigns of the State and nation wrro conspicuous in the decorations of the banquet hall, and larger llags were displayed in front of the hotel throughout the day and evening. Mr. Taft, in the ourso of an address, which was confined entirely to the South and its problems urged again that the voters of the South should break away from the outlived sentiment and traditions of th*'ir past political affiliations and cast their ballots in accordance rather with their economic and real political beliefs. Mr. Taft declared that nothing would give him greater pride during his coming term in the chief executive office than so to direct the policy of the national government with respect to the Southern States as to convince the intelligent citizens of the South of the desire of his adminstraton to aid them in working out satisfactorily the serious problems before them and of bringing them and their Northern fellow citizens closer and closer in sympathy and point of view. White Supremacy Assured. "I am not going to rehears the painful history of Reconstruction or what followed it. I come at once to the present condition of things, stated from a constitutional and political standpoint. And that is this: That in all Southern States, it is possible, by election laws prescribing proper qualifications for the suffrage, which square with the 15th amendment and which shall h-j equally administered as between the black and white races, to prevent entirely the possibility of a domination of Southern State, county or municipality governments hv an ignorant electorate, white or black. It is also true that the sooner such laws when adopted are applied with exact equality and justice to the two races the better for the moral tone of the State and community concerned. Negroes should be given an opportunity equally with whites by education and thrift to meet the requirements of eligibility which shall lay down in order to secure the safe exercise of the electoral franchise. The negro should ask for nothing other than an equa. chance to qualify himself for the fr?o#hise and when that is granted bjJRov and not denied by executive diM-rimination. ho has nothing to ;f| complain of. "The proposal to repeal tlio lath amendment is utterly impracticable and should "bo relegated to the limbo of forgotten Issues. What we are considering is something practical something that means attainable progress. It seem: to me to follow, therefore, that there is or ought to jflv ;/ he a common ground upon which we can all ttand in respect to the race question in the South and its political bearing that takes away any justification for maintaining the contil^'d solidity of the South to prethe so-called negro domination. Tito fear that in some way or other a social equality between the races shall be enforced by law or brought about by political measures reallv bus no foundation nxoont in tbn tm agination of those who fonr such a result. The federal government has nothing to do with social equality. The war amendments do not declare in favor of social equality; all that the law or constitution attempts to secure is equality of opportunity hefore the law and in the pursuit of happiness and in the enjoyment of life, liberty and prosperity. Social equality Is something that grows out of voluntary concessions by the individuals forming society. nsons of Sentiment." th the elimination of the race question can wo say that there nr? removed all the reasons why the peoplifj^of the South are reluctant to givo up their political solidity and divide themselves on party lines in accordance with their economic and political views? No, there ar" other reasons; perhaps only reasons of sentiment, hut with the Southern people, who are a high strung, sen\ ? ?? ammmmmtmmmmmmmmtmmtmmmmmmmmmmm | stive and outsjiokou people, consid erutions of sentiment are frequently quite as strong us those of some political or bconomic character. In the tlrat place, it is now nearly 4 0 years since the Bouth acquired Its political solidity and the iutousity of feeling by which it was main talued and the ostracism and social proscription imposed on those white Southerners who did not sympathize with tfm necessity for such solidity could not but make lasting impression and create a permanent bias that would naturally outlast the reason for its original existence." Mr. Taft referred to the trials of the Reconstruction period which accentuated the greater trial of the past, and the slow returns of prosperity to the South following the civil strife, as further agencies that help to keep alive the feeling engendered by that controversy, and continued: But times change and men change with them in any community, however fixed its thoughts or habits, and many circumstances have blessed us with tiller influence in this matter. The growth of the South since 1900 has been marvelous. The manufacturing capital in 1SS0 was $1C?0,000.000; in 1890, $f>r>0,000.000; In 1000, $ 1.150,000,000, and in 1 908, $2,1 00,'000,000, while the values of the manufacturers increased from $150,000,000 in 1 880, to $900,000.000 in 1890, to $1,450,000,000 In 1900. and to $2,600,000,000 In 1908. "The farm products In 1880 were $660,000,000; in 1 890, $770,000, 000; in 1 900, $1,270,000,000, and 1 908, $2,200,000,000. The export* from the South in 1 880 were $260,000.000 of dollars; in 1890. $206,000.000; In 1900, $184,000,000, an 1 in 1908, $6 18,000,000. "In this marvelous growth the manufacturers of the South now ex coed the agricultural products and thus a complete change has com" over the character of her Industries. The South has become rich, and onl> the surface of her wealth has been scratched. Tier growth has exceeded that of the rest of the country, and she is now in every way sharing in its prosperity. State Kiglits an<l Democracy. "Again, the Democratic party has not preserved inviolate its traditional doctrines as to State tights and other issues and has for the time adopted new doctrines of possibily doubtful economic truth and wisdom. Southern men adhering to the party flllit I h <> linrnii flu/1 Ihrnnonlrna through the influence of tratdition and the fear of a restoration of conditions which are now impossible, supporting a platform and candidate whose political and economic theories they distrust. Under these conditions there was in the last campaign and there is throughout the South among many of its most intelligent citizens an impatience, a nervousness and ti restlessness i " voting for one ticket and rejoicing ii. the success of another. "Now I am not one of those who are disposed to criticise or emphasize the inconsistency of the position in which these gentlemen find tliem'selves. I believe it would be wise if all who sympathize with one party and its principles were to vote its ticket, but I can readily understand t lie weight and inertia of the tradition and the social considerationthat makes them hesitate. 1 believe that the movement, away front from political solidity has started and ought to be encouraged and I think one way to encourage it is to have the South understand that Iho attitude of the North and the Republican party toward it is not one of hostility or criticism or opposition, political or otherwise; that they believe in the maintenance of the 15th amendment, but that, as already explained, they do not deem that amendment to be inconsistent with the South's obtaining and main taining what it regards as its political safety from domination of an ignorant electorate; that the North yearns for closer association with the South; that its citizens deprecate that resorve on tho subject of poletioh which ho long has boon maintained in tho otherwise delightful social relations between Southerner*; and Northerners an they are more and mora frequently thrown together. "In welcoming to a change of party afTlliation many Southerners who have been Democrats vo are brought face to face with a delicate situation which wo can only meet with frankness and lust ice. In our nnxiiety to bring the Democratic Southerners into new political relations wo should have and can have no desire to puss by or ignore the comparatively few white Southerners who from principle has consistently stood for our principles in the South when it brought them social ostracism and a loss of all nrestuac. Nor can wo sympathize with an effort to exclude front the support of Itepublicanism in the South or to road out of the party those colored voters j who by their education and thrift have made themselves eligible to exercise the electoral franchise. Matters of Education. "We believe that the solution of the race question in the South is largely a matter of industrial and thorough education. Some Southerners who have ginn expr -sslon to their thoughts seem to thing that the only solution o." the nog") qucst'on i.-i liis migration to AMca; but to mo such a proposition is utterly fatuous. The negro Is essential to 1UO BIG A LIAR roil IIIM TO TACKIiti K.VYS FD1TOK LAFFAN, I I Who, lit l>igiiitlcil hut Scorching Wools, Hoasts Koosovelt, Refusing to Handy Kpithets With Him. Mr. Lallan replies to the President's letter as follows: "The editor of the Sun present.! his compliments to Mr. ltoosevelt and acknowledges his active s nihility in respect of the attention which Mr. Mooscvclt has heen good enough to jHiy him in his letter to the Hon. WinAm Dudley Foulke, of Indiana. "Notwithstanding the directness of this challenge, the editor of thSun declines a controversy with Mr. Roosevelt. lie is by no means indifferent tc tae implied complinfut discernible in Mr. Roosevelt's tirade, but Mr. Roosevelt has shown in his frequent collusions with various persons of distinction that he has an overwhelming advantage over any respectable antagonist in his, Mr. Roosevelt's complete freedom from any sense of personal obligation in respect of tne truth. . ..e editor of the Stin is fully alive to the extremi ty of tho inconvenience which attaches to a personal controversy with a man who has shown himself canable of suppression and perversion of individual correspondence, an act which, in ordinary life, would, in the cognizance of any club or association of self-respecting gentlemen, entail his prompt erpulsion. "In raying these things we cannot disguise1 our chagrin and humiliation that the person wt o is addressed is also the President of tti United State s "It is curious that the Mr. FoulK 1 is a preferred repository of th<io-< confidence's of the Presielent. ft was to him that Mr. Roosevelt sent h.s memorable letter denying that lie was using the- Feeleral patronage !> aid Mr. Taft's candidacy, a letter which at once took its place among the me>st valued incunabula of veractiv." WO IA UK IX IHvATII COM IIAT. Piece of Meat Causes Conflict at the Hronx Zoo. Now York, Dec. 7.?Hundreds of visitors to the llronx zoo yosterdav saw two gray wolves fight for twenty minutes after clashing over a pi?-ee of meat. Despite the efforts of the keepers, who turned the hose on them the animals continued to battle until one of them was so hady injured that it. was necessary to administer ehlo rotnorm to end its suffering';. One of its legs had been bittmi olT as clean as if severed by a ke -n knife. The other wolfe was badly mangled but may be saved. the South in order that it ni.t.v have proper labor. Th'ir ancestors wet" brought here against their will. They have no country but this. They know no flag but ours. They wish to live under it and are willing to die for it. They nr) Americans. The proposition to increase the supply of labor in the South by eirig'atson from Eiirc.ic, is seems to me, instead of being In:micnl to ' localise of the negro, will aid him. As the inrlnntrlea r?t* tV??? Qntuli .....?? ~ . . v,., v?. u i 11 v \ * 11 *. i 11 111: to grow in the marvelous ratio ali eady n.w.vn the demand for labor must in rease. "Primarily an industrial education for the masses, higher education for the leaders of the n *gro race, for their piofeasional men, their clergymen, their physicians, their lawyers and their teachers, will make tip a system under which thoi: improvement, which statist'es show to hav" been most not?wovthy in lie iast 40 years, will continue at the sitno rate. 'On the whole, then, the heot public ruinion of the North and the best public opinion of the South seems to be coming together in "e spect to an tne economic and political questions growing out of present race conditions. "The recent election has made i? probable that I shall become more or lens responsible for the policy of the next presidential administration and I improve this opportunity to say that nothing will give me greater pride, because nothing will give me more claim to the gratitude of mv fellow citizens, if I could so direc that policy in respect to the South ern States as to convince their intelligent citizens of the desire of the administration to aid them in working out satisfactorily the aeriou problems before them and of bringing them and their Northern fellow citizens closer and closer in sympa they and point of view. During tielast decade, in common with lov-r. of our country, i have watched with delight and thanksgiving the bond of union between the two sections grow firmer. I pray that it may b given to me to strengthen this movement, to obliterate all sectional lines and leave nthing of dlfferenc s between the North and South save a friendly emulation for the benefit of our common country." NAILWAY HtPORTS ON PKItHONH KILLED AND lVJl'KED BY THEM. totals (iivcii on Number of Employ*^, Postal Clerks mill Passengers for Twelve Mouths. Columbia, Dec. 11.?The railroad commission is dally recoiviug reports from tin; railroad companies on business done in this State for the year ending June 30. 100S. There are 3 2 of these reports and about onehalf have been received. The blanks are prepared by the interstate commerce commission, which was very late in issuing them to the State commission. All the large roads having reported and the copy is iiov. being prepared for the State pi inter. One of the interesting tables sent in gives the number oi pert-em; killed and injured for 12 months Some of these roads give the following figures: Atlantic Coast Lino railway?Employes killed, 2; injured. 329; passengers injured, 29; other persons killed, 6; injured, 20; total killed,] ; injured, as7. Blue Ridge railroad Railway employes killed, I; injured, I; oth?r| persons killed, 2; injur'd, 3; total killed, 2; injured. 4. (Carolina & Northwestern railroad | Railway employes injured, 6; pas-' senders injured, 1; total injured. 1. i Charleston & Western Carolina railroad Railway employes killed, 1; injured, 24; passengers injured 11; other persons killed, 1; total killed, 2; injured, f>:>. Carolina Coast & Northern railway Railway employes injured, 'J. (Ireenville & Knoxville railroad Kniployes injured, I. Lancaster and Chester railroad employes Injured. I. Seaboard Air Line railroad Railroad employes killed, 4; injured, (?2, passengers injured. 8; postal clerks injured, 1; other persons killed, 8 injured. 17; total killed, 12; injured, 88. Southern railway? Railway employes killed. 11; injured, 3h8; passengers injured, 73; postal clerks injured, 13; other persons killed. 13; injured, 21; total killed, 32; injured, {>50. The following roads report no accidents to persons: Aleolu railroad. Carolina & Western, Charleston Terminal Company, (Jeorgetown A. Western, Northwestern railroad of South Carolina and I'nion & (llenn Springs railroad. Reports have not been received from the Southern railway, Carolina division, the Southern railway in South Carolina, the Atlanta \ rnariotte Air l.inc and several others.?The State. f MAIL CAKKIKIl III KT. Thrown From llis lluggy and IVrliaps Fatally Injured. Spartanburg, Dec. 7.?Jesse L. I Wood, a well known letter carrier, was thrown front his buggy early Sunday morning and seriously injured. The horse Mr. Wood was driving took fright on east Main street, just in front of the First Presbyterian church. lie was thrown violently to the sidewalk and knocked unconscious. When taken to his home it was discovered that three of his ribs had been broken and one of his shoulders terribly injured. lie is threatened with pneumonia, which makes his condition trebly worse.?The State. A Khymcd Wedding. According to the Mexico Lodger jonn aiooio, a \\ eiiston magistrate, united a negro couple with this cor- | eniony. .Tim. will you take 13rt Without any regret, To love and to cherish ! 'Till one of you perish, And is laid under the sod, So help you <Joel ? Jim having given the usual affirmative answer, Judge Stoble tinned to Hot: Ret, will you take Jim And cling to him, Roth out and in, Through thick and thin, Holding him to your heart., "rill death you part? Ret modestly acuuiescod, and the new lv mr?rvl'*l r> r? 11 n 1 < ?r ^ vwii|H' MIC III.")" missed with thi>- benediction: Through life's alternative joy and strife, I now pronounce you man and wife. Oo tip life's hill till you get to Uric vol And saints your bride, you dusky devil. Dairy Pointers. Whatever wo should give our cows to eat we should never neglect to proviod them with plenty of water and pure nir. Ventilation and cleanliness nr* two matters which are going to cut an important figure in the future dairy business. It may be set down as an absolute fact, that an animal in an unsound condition cannot give pure milk. * Ronn-time. a man can perff.-m his duly with a fairly decent grace if ho can't find anything else to do. i I THIS PANAMA SCANDAL. Former Senator Discusses Pending Inquiry Into Matter. , Omaha, Neb., hoc. 10. Former Senator J. II. Millard, of N< braska who was chairman of the senate committee on the Panama canal, when the investigation was made by the senate as to the d tails of the manner in which this government acquire I the IVn.i'i. ? canal, said in an interview that "ie French govern met ,i > no! u necttd !a any w;i> j with the deal which was made j throtiKh William Nelson Cromwel'. 1 who noted for the canal company, and who blocked evevy effort r?f ' e . com mil t *C to , t; *e the Iivt of st ock hobe if. I the company to whom the the $40,000,000 was paid. S< nat'-r Millard says many of the stat moots contained in President > Roosevelt's letter to Foulk, wete ( wrony, among them being the statement 'hat the $40,000,000 was pail | ihe French governm tit. Mr. W'illard says this money was paid .1. P. I Morgan & Co. "The French government had 1 nothing to do with the sale of tie canal property.' 'said Senator Mil- 1 lard. "About the only man who had anything to do with that, so far as our committee was able to find was W illiam Nelson Cromwell. W'e were never able to find the names of th> stockholders of the company, which he represented. "I am certain there was no grafting on the part of any government ollicial in this country." "Was Douglas Robinson or an> j of the Tafts members of the syndicate?" was asked Senator Millard, j "1 don't know. W'e never could get Cromwell to answer a question I as to who the memb rs of the j syndicate were. t'romwell knows. (Jet hold of him or make him answer, and you will know all about the Panama deal." PANAMA IN YIOSTKJATION. i Democrats Want Inquiry Into 'I lint i $10,?()(),000 Purchase. Washington, Dec. 7. ? Democrats of the House are planning to demand , an investigation of the purchase of the Panama canal property and t-i , conformity with this program Representative Rainey. of Illinois, in- , trod need a resolution directing the Speaker to appoint a committee of , live to 'ascertain how much of the $40,000,000 which appears on the , record to have hen paid to the French company, was really paid to i that company." ( It is said that the National Democratic committee requested Itainey Jo present the resolution, which ( provides that the committee shah < ascertain if any portion of the $4 0,000,000 was directly or indirect 1\ paid to American citizens, to an American syndicate, and if any | member, or Senator, profited by the t ransactioa. <;<>\ HKNMIONT DYKKS llltKAK. Five Dwellings and Lumber Plant A idk Cii-iXk* % .?? # Pino Bluff, Ark., Doc. 7.?The government dyke at the foot of Tennessee street gave way late today and tonight the waters of the Arkansas river are fast eating their way toward t lie mouth of llardings Bayou which crosses the city. Today live dwelling houses and the warehouse of the Arkansas Packet Company, were swept away and tin greater portion of the Candy Hardwood mill was destroyed. Barracque street for a distance of five blocks east of Georgia street has been completely destroyed and the buildings on the south side of th* street are being moved back as rapidly as possible, with the water following closely in the wake of the work men. GHi:.\T WATCH MAIN BUHAKS. Trallle Worked at Brooklyn I'nfil Mole is Bridged. New York, Dec. 7.?A Rood sized area in Brooklyn in the vicinity of Washington and Johnson streets wn< still wet today after Inst night's deluge, caused by the breaking of a tweiity-fonr-inch high pressure water main. With a roar that could be heard iwr ijmm'kh me wai r snoi upward for twenty feet. Bonding with it a shower of paving stones, sprinkling evervhody within fifty yea-ds. Traffic was blocked until a bole in the street ten foot square was bridged. Police reserves and an emergency crew from the wafer department were called out to hold the crowd in chock and prevent a panic. No one was injured. A Fast Flying Itird, The most wonderful bird flight noted is th migratory achievement of the Virginia plover, which leaves its haunts in North America and taking a course down the Atlantic, reaches the coast of Ilrazll In on" unbroken (light of I hours, covering a distance of 3,000 miles at the rate of four miles a minute. Some years ago some of these birds were stranded In Orangeburg by a storm, and several pepole who saw them not d their swjft flight ft" they resumed their journey Southward. GINNER'S REPORT or cotton <;i\ni:i> to dfcemIIEK ONE. I 1,01 o,s<2 I Hales UII?1 20,0:|.T Ginneries?Incn'aso Over laist Year. S. <Shows 2,O.VJ, A 17 I tale*. A tot al f?f 1 1.010,801 hale* of cotton ginned from th> growth of 1008 to December 1, and 20,922 active cinnerles, against 8,2 12,300 bale* ginned a year ago were announced n the bureau rt port on cotton ginning Tuesday. The 1007 crop was ll,0r?7,822 bales, of which 7.7.,r? was ginned to I>ee??m l mm* 1, the 1906 mv|>, 1 2,983,101. *.vith <7.2 to I)".'ernher I and 905 crop, 10,496. 105, hales with .82,8 to December a. In 1906 then* were 10,027,868 bales and in I 905 8,689,663 bales ginned to December 1. The r- port conn's round hales as half bales and excludes linters. It includes 200,818 round bales for 1908. 154.636 for 1907 and 227,11 5 for 1908. Sea Island bales included 68. 197 for 190 8, 55,299 for 1907 and 11,250 for 190 6. Today's report glvt s running bales ginned to December I and active ginneris reupoet I vely by States as lonows: Alabama, 1,17 1,401 haies and 3,429 ginneries. Arkansas, "<76,153 bales and 2,073 glum ries. Florida, 58,677 hales and 251 ginneries. (leorgla, 1.736.737 11 ??i >a o ?.i . .. .. II nil 4.384 ginneries. Kansas, K?nteekv and New Mexico, 1.3 7 I hales and 5 ginneries. Louisiana, 30 7,17!) hales and 1 , ; I;> ginneries. Mississippi, 1,U07,H01 hales and 3.12'J ginneries. Missouri, 4a,7"?0 hales and 70 i?iiinerlos. North Carolina, 5 3 4,002 hales and 2.0.3 1 ginneries. Oklahoma, 432,077 ha'es and 073 ginneries. Sou tl? Carolina, 1,052,547 hales Mid 3.181 ginneries. Tenness..<>, 278,070 hales and f.2r> ginneries. Texas. 3 200,221 hales and 4,001 cjin nerfes. Virginia, 8.773 hales and 02 ginaeries. The distribution -?f ?en isl ?nd cotton hv Strife, is: CI or! da 2c,0j3; CJeorgia. 32.1-73; South Carolina, 8,3 3 0 hales. The corn ( ted stnt!?tirs of the quantity ?>!' r>tt >n ginned this season to November 14 are $0,505,809 hales. Holes for Cuests. flnests are requested not to speak to the dumb waiter. (Jiiesfs wishing to get up without being railed can have >? If-raising tlour fc?r supper. The hotel is supported I y a beautiful cemetery; hearses to hire, 2.% ( ( nts a day. (!uests wishing to do a little driving will find hammer and nails in t he. closet. If the room gets too warm, open the windows and see the fire escape. If you're fond of athletics and like good jumping, lift the mattress and see the bed spring. [f your lamp goes out. take a feather out of the pillow; that's light enough for any room. Any one troubled with nightmare will find halter on the bedpost. Don't worry about paying your bill; the house Is supported by the foundation. * First. "Diving Dress." , It is nearly a century since Adolph Siebe invented the first crude "diving dress," which, after the manner of inventions has heen greatly in 111iu11 unco tnet) Today a diver can remain eight hours deep down under the ocean with as much comfort as his brother workman nt the surface. In this way the underworld of the sea has really been op ned tip, and on every hand has been compelled to stive up tfs drowned mold. "For ships carrying enormous quantities of treasure- gold and silver and precious stones, jealously stored in the bullion room ? are Jus*, as liaM to misfortune as their humbler sisters. * Took His Own Life. St. Louis, Dec. 7.?Charles A. I'.fKs iromer, Swedish vice counsel in St. Louis, committed suicide today. Eckst romer came into public notice son: time ago through a controversy with IVderal officials which resulted in the revocation of his exequatur by President Roosevelt. Later he was reinstated and resumed his official duties. Commits Suicide. New York, Dec. 7.- Leaving two letters, in one of which he said he had "suffered more than anybody in tho world," Louis Evans, of Brooklyn, a youth of nineteen years, s-hot and instantly killed himself in a hospi'nl where he was undergoing treatment tor tuberculosis. One of tho worst things ibout t^lng rich teems to no how unhappy it can make you not to be rich.